You must’ve read the Forbes article… yeah, I’m not happy with the ‘wacky pirate money’ tone, either.
More credit for the rest of the contributors is a very good idea.
RE: forwarding the key/code: fricking fracking… now I’ve gotta figure out a couple of people who I can trust to keep them safe…
On a completely different subject: I did something that I hope turns out to be smart, but might be stupid.
I was contacted by http://www.iqt.org/ – they’re a US-govt-funded ‘strategic investment’ company, and part of what they do is holding an annual conference on emerging technologies for US intelligence agencies. This year the theme is “Mobility of Money”.
They asked if I’d be willing to talk about Bitcoin, and I committed to giving a 50-minute presentation and participating in a panel discussion.
I hope that by talking directly to “them” and, more importantly, listening to their questions/concerns, they will think of Bitcoin the way I do– as a just-plain-better, more efficient, less-subject-to-political-whims money. Not as an all-powerful black-market tool that will be used by anarchists to overthrow The System.
It might be really stupid if it just raises Bitcoin’s visibility on their radar, but I think it is way too late for that; Bitcoin is already on their radar.
I plan on posting about this on the forums soon, because “Gavin secretly visits the CIA” would spin all sorts of conspiracy theories. “Gavin openly visits the CIA” will create enough conspiracy theories as it is.